Nortrom's Stratego (and other topics) blog

Everyone has had to endure this unpleasant experience some time, you get matched up against a player with thousands of games and approximately a 50% win percentage and you know what is coming your way. You start preparing for a game you're not interested in and prepare your setup or load up your favourite "anti lotto/blitz" setup. Sometimes chance is on your side, your opponent manages to lose the game within the first 30 moves, down a marshal and general, the opponent surrenders (or disconnects as some like to be a prick), you reap your sweet +1.. or +10.. Whatever amount of points it gets you. On the bright side, you can drastically increase this chance by preparing properly. Now most of the time, this is not how the scenario unfolds. Theoretically, it should about 50% of the time, but since the quick victories mean nothing, there was little thought or investment into it, it just feels like you have won an empty bottle of water. Great. Often players will feel frus...

The start of my Stratego carreer. Back in the times, a rather long time ago, at the age of 6, my parents thought it would be a good idea to make me a member of scouting - something I despised from the very beginning - I simply did not care for it at all and mainly saw it as a waste of several hours of my time on a saturday afternoon. Don't get me wrong, there were some ups to it as well, some of the activities were enjoyable. During a rainy saturday afternoon, some kids brought boardgames with them and one challenged me (out of a group of +- 16) to a game of Stratego, a game I had never heard of or played before. I am not 100% sure anymore whether one or two games were played, I think it was one. By a miracle, I managed to win the game. I remember my miner removing 3 or 4 bombs in a row only to hit the flag - one of the leaders that was observing was surprised because, apparently, I was down quite some material - little did I know. The game got my interest and it just s...

Dear audience, Welcome to my blog. On here I will post my views on certain topics, share some thoughts give a view behind the scenes of some Stratego related business and so on. Topics will be discussed whenever something interesting happened or the topic simply crossed my mind and I felt like writing something about it. If you have a suggestion for a topic, mail me . Thanks. As this is new to me, occasionally you may notice changes in layout/theme, it is not really my area of expertise, so very likely this layout will be used for a while. Should you post a comment, please do not be offended if no reply or whatsoever is given by me - hereby you have my thanks in advance. Yours truly, Nortrom